The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-26
NO MARRYING IN HEAVEN.
DR.. Bowman's Sermon on Recognition
in the Hereafter.


/ in the Hereafter.
Recognition in Heaven was the subject of
! Dr. Bowman's sermon at the Evangelical
| Lutheran church last night. The subject is
| one of peculiar interest. DR.. Bowman
! spoke from the text-"And Jesus answer
| ing said: The children of this world marry
| and are given in marriage: but they which
| shall be accounted worthy 10 obtain that
world, and the resurrection from the dead.
neither marry nor are they given in mar
| riage; neither can they die any more, for
they are equal unto the angels and are the
| children OF God, being the children of the
| resurrection St Luke, Xxx, 1886
These words, said the preacher, are part
of the dispute between our Lord and the
! Sadducees concerning the social relation
| ships of mankind in this world and in the
| world to come.
The preceding verses of the chapter from
| which the text is taken touch upon the res
| direction The Sadducees, who denied that
| there was any resurrection, said To the Mas
ter that Moses wrote unto them that if any
mans brother die, leaving wife and he die
without children, his brother should take
his wife and raise up seed unto his brother,
and then follow the verses, There were
seven brethren, and the first took a
wife and died without children,
less and the third took her, and in like
manner the seven also, and they left no
children and died. Last of all the women
died also Therefore in the resurrection,
whose wife of them is shel" Jesus answered
in the words of the text
The church, and the world, DIR.
Bowman remarked, are full of
Sadducees whose minds are con-
tinually filled with doubt concerning the
relationship of people in this world, and in
the hereafter. They are more worried
about the relationship they will bear to
each other when they get to Heaven,
than they are about getting there.
The existence of future love is positively
asserted in the Bible. We shall know each
other in Heaven. We shall love each other
there, but with purer, higher and holer
love than is possible in this life. The social
contrast between this world and that
to come includes four things: First, there is
no marriage in Heaven. Marriage is an in
stitution that terminates at the grave. Love
in the hereafter is purely spiritual. All
earthly relationships dissolve in death. Our
entrance into this world gave us
father and mother. In heaven
God is our Father. There is no husband
and wife, no brother and sister, no male
and female. God is the Father there and
we will be His children, being children of
the resurrection. We shall know and recog-
nize our friends, and will remember the re-
lationships which we sustained in this
world and may talk of them, but our re-
lationship there will be angelic.
There will be no worthless characters in
heaven. None will be there except they
which shall be accounted worthy to obtain
that world and the resurrection from the
dead. We were not brought into this world
because we are worthy of it.
The condition of our entrance into
1.
There will be no gross organization there
Here we dwell in bodies of clay In the
world to come our bodies will be spiritual.
st. Paul in reply to the question, "How are
the dead raised up. and with what body do
they comem Said, that which thou sowest
is not quickened except it die: and that
which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body
that shall be, but bear grain, it may
chance of wheat or of some other grain,
but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased
Him, and to every seed His own body. All
flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one
kind of flesh of men, and another
flesh of beasts, another of fishes and
another of birds. There are also
celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial, but
the glory of the celestial is one and the
glory of the terrestrial is another. So also
is the resurrection of the dead; it is sown in
corruption; it is raised in interruption. 1t
is sown a natural body; it is raised
spiritual body. There is a natural body,
and there is spiritual body. And so it is
written, The first man, Adam, was made a
living soul; the last Adam was made a
quickening spirit. That was not first which
is spiritual, but that which is natural and
afterward that which is spiritual" All who
attain to the resurrection and eternal life
will be made and fashioned like unto the
body of Jesus Christ. If we were to take
ourselves and families to heaven without
having been found worthy of the resurrec-
tiorf we would be as anxious to get away as
we were to get there
Another popularity which the preacher
remarked concerning Heaven, is that there
is no mortality there. There is no dying in
the future world. Its inhabitants do not
die because God cannot make them die, for
that would make them immortal independent
of God, but rather they will be like unto the
| angels There will be no moral inferiority
in Heaven. We shall be in all things per-
| tanning to morality equal to the angels
equal in purity and freedom from sin.
The preacher pointed out from the text
that an exchange of worlds will necessarily
| produce an entire change i'll all our relation
ships. Matrimony ceases at the grave.
| 1t is dissolved la death. In the
resurrection our relationship win be
not matrimonial but angelic. We shall
| not lose our identity, however We will
still he the same person. There could be no
resurrection without previous existence.
| The object and purpose of the resurrection
is to restore in Christ what was lost through
| Adams fall. Our faculties will be stronger,
purer, higher. Now, like st. Paul, we see
through a glass darkly, but then, face to
| face now we know in part, but then we
| shall know as we are known. Here
| in this world we think. sometimes,
| that we know a friend bnt are
mistaken. A wife betrays her husband, or
son his father Here we see each other
through thousand clouds, hut in Heaven
we shall know each othef perfectly. The
darkness and misapprehension, and obscurity
of this world will all be swept away We
will love those whom we loved on earth.
but with purer, higher and holier love,
not because they were wife, or father, or
mother, or sister, but because we will all
| be children of God